> I have a very basic question when it comes to using
> the optional tasks.
> I am using Ant 1.2 and according to the documentation
> I have copied the optional.jar to the
> $ANT_HOME/lib directory. But this does not make the
> optional task (ftp, in my case) available to me in my
> build file.
> The build file on being run gives me an error which
> says :
>
>
> Could not create task of type: ftp because I can't
> find it in the list of task class definitions. Co
> mmon solutions are: 1 execute bin/bootstrap. 2 use
> taskdef to declare your task. 3 add the task to
> defaults.properties.
>
>
> Is there anything that I need to do besides copying
> the optional.jar file to $ANT_HOME/lib directory?
Do you have the Net-Components package installed?
See the FTP documentation for where to get it etc.
Jon
